Teaching

Event report: Supporting online learners, what works?

Aston Teachmeet on ‘Supporting online learners, what works? A discussion of innovative methods in providing distance learners with information literacy and library skills’ Joe Carey, Enquiries Assistant at Aston University Library, has kindly provided a report on their recent Library Teachmeet event, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Our recent Teachmeet came at an […]

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Event report: Aberystwyth TeachMeet on “Information Literacy in the Age of Fake News”

George Smith, Graduate Library Assistant at Aberystwyth University Library, has kindly provided a report on their recent Library TeachMeet event, which was hosted by the University and sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Aberystwyth Library TeachMeet: “Information Literacy in the Age of Fake News” This year’s theme at the Aberystwyth LibTeachMeet was “Information Literacy in the Age of

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Research

Information Literacy Journal Club discussion- Thursday 11th May 2017 – 8pm

The Information Literacy Journal Club will once again be discussing a reading next week – Thursday 11th May 2017 at 8pm. The article to be discussed is ‘School libraries, political information and information literacy provision: findings from a Scottish study’. Smith, L.N. Journal of Information Literacy, 2016, 10(2), pp.3-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/10.2.2097 Full details: http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/school-libraries-political-information.html

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Information Literacy Journal Club – Thursday 30th March 2017

The next information literacy online journal club discussion will take place on Thursday 30th March at 8pm BST (4pm EST) on the blog: http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/flipping-classroom-in-business-and.html Anyone can join!  Participants aim to read at least some of the article in advance, then come along and join in the discussion, with each other and the authors, by adding

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Information Literacy Journal Club – 16 March 2017

The next Information Literacy Journal Club discussion is taking place this Thursday, March 16th, starting at 8pm UK time (4pm EST, 9pm Norway). The article chosen for discussion is “An assessment of library instruction: its influence on search behaviour of first- and third-year students” by Torunn Skofsrud Boger, Hanne Dybvik, Anne-Lise Eng and Else Helene Norheim,

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News

ACRL white paper on global perspectives on information literacy

The Student Learning & Information Literacy (SLILC) committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has today published a white paper on global perspectives on information literacy. The white paper contains chapters written by practitioners and researchers from around the globe on their insights and practice. View more details, and download the free

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Event report: Employability LibTeachMeet at Swansea University, November 2016

Philippa Price (Subject Librarian for School of Management & College of Engineering, Swansea University) has kindly provided a report of a recent LibTeachMeet, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group and held at Swansea University. Sun, sand and employability – LibTeachMeet at Swansea University The Welsh Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) Learning and Teaching Group,

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The Publishing Trap: a Lagadothon 2016 case study

Chris Morrison, Copyright and Licensing Compliance Officer at the University of Kent, and Jane Secker, Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at LSE and Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, introduce a game they have designed to help academics, researchers and PhD students understand the scholarly communication process. The Publishing Trap was a runner-up at

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The CRAP! Game: a Lagadothon 2016 case study

Kathryn Ballard, Information Librarian at Southampton Solent University, introduces a game that she has designed to encourage participants to evaluate information sources. The CRAP! Game was a runner-up at LILAC 2016‘s popular Lagadothon event. UPDATE 25/11/16: Professionally designed versions of the CRAP! Game cards are now available for you to download and use. LILAC 2016

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Escape rooms for learning: the LILAC Lagadothon 2016 winner

Andrew Walsh, Academic Librarian at the University of Huddersfield and Training Officer for the CILIP Information Literacy Group, tells us about some exciting developments with his “Escape rooms for learning” idea, which was first unveiled at LILAC 2016‘s Lagadothon event. Since winning the Lagadothon with “Escaping the Induction”, I’ve been working on my prototype, which

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